On 20 Oct 2002, David Chart wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 15:17, Martin Sevior wrote: > > > > HI David, > > I think you have a pretty reasonable set of requirements for a > > professional writer. I think/hope that the feature set we'll provide for > > abiword 2.0 will get us a foot in the door for users in your catagory. > > > > I think so too. 1.0.x is already good enough for people writing for me. > > Specifics: > > > > There you go, easily quotable praise. Feel free to do so, as well. I'm > > > actually using CVS HEAD, and keeping all my files in a local CVS > > > repository just in case, and the automatic assert on opening a document > > > is irritating. I thought Martin was going to remove that? > > > > Sorry. Will do. > > Thanks. > > > > > > 3) Handling of RTF from non-standard applications is still a bit > > > intolerant. I'm sure the RTF produced by Quark XPress is utterly > > > horrible, but Abi refuses to open it. Since I get sent RTF from lots of > > > different apps, I need something that will open everything. > > > > > > > Could you please open bugs in bugzilla and attach offending documents? > > I've found that we can get most docs to import reasonablally well with a > > only a few minor tweaks. > > > > Sorry, the documents are too confidential to post to bugzilla. I could > send a zipped set to individual developers who want to work on it, > though. (I'm the person who gets to decide who sees the documents.) > I'll keep them confidential if you'd like to send them to me. I've had a bit of practice now at working around rtf abiguities. > > > 3.5) Tables aren't quite good enough, but they're really close, so I'm > > > sure this will be fixed very soon. (Thanks Martin!) > > > > > > > Can you be a bit more specfic on what you need or is the current state of > > bugs in tables (which I'm working through) just too bad to make them worth > > while? > > > > Just the bugs. As far as I can see, all the features are there. > Actually, I have a document that doesn't import properly which I could > post to bugzilla, so I'll do that now. > It would help if you could create some reproducible bugs for tables. It helps to keep me focussed. Cheers Martin
